Ali Hashem علي هاشم ✓

@Alihashem · GB-LBN-QAT-IRQ-IRN · joined 12 May 2008

🇱🇧|🇸🇱 @AJEnglish | Founder @darhashembooks & @aljadahmedia | bylines @AlMonitor @AmwajMedia @foreignpolicy| MA Politics & IR (#Iran) @RoyalHolloway

112 823Followers

5 342Following

54 850Posts total

194.1KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

6 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown to more people than peers of the same size.

Median views12 544this account5 994median for 100K–1M

Reach, %11.12%this account2.51%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %1.57%this account1.40%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	12 544	5 994	2.09×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	11.12%	2.51%	4.43×
Engagement rate	1.57%	1.40%	1.12×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

28.1K1 Sep

16.6K

8.5K2 Sep

134.7K

2.8K

3.5K

Last 6 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.77%1 Sep

1.55%

1.60%2 Sep

0.56%

2.32%

4.67%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.40%.

What the audience does

Likes70.3%1 233 in total

Reposts15.7%276 in total

Replies3.1%55 in total

Quotes1.6%28 in total

Bookmarks9.2%161 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

Latest posts

@Alihashem The world historic caveat you are ignoring is that the Iran has consistently kept traffic in the straight down 90%, the economic impact grows over time, it doesn't weaken 3.5K views · 159 likes · 2 reposts · 2 replies 02 Sep 2026 @Alihashem Iran fully believes that war is not necessary until US burns through the first cache of reserves. At that point, US has less room to operate. Iran also can't trust any deal from Trump so they don't have much of a choice until they see how the world reacts to higher pri 2.8K views · 63 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026 Yesterday’s exchange confirms that Washington isn’t seeking a prolonged war with Iran. Trump wants a controlled siege, enough pressure to erode Iran’s leverage over the Strait without a full-blown campaign. The longer Iran stays locked in reaction mode, the weaker its bargaining 134.7K views · 579 likes · 113 reposts · 39 replies 02 Sep 2026 Six months ago, I wrote this for @ForeignPolicy: “Iran Is Becoming America’s Ukraine” The shift to an attritional war focused on energy infrastructure risks becoming a quagmire. My argument was that the danger isn’t a bigger war, but rather a longer one, and the real question htt 8.5K views · 106 likes · 26 reposts · 4 replies 02 Sep 2026 At least two people killed and several injured in the U.S. attack on the wedding in Sirik. 16.6K views · 178 likes · 71 reposts · 5 replies 01 Sep 2026 Several people are reported to have been injured after shrapnel from a U.S. attack struck a wedding ceremony in Sirik, southern Iran. 28.1K views · 148 likes · 62 reposts · 5 replies 01 Sep 2026 Tomorrow marks 100 years since the end of WW1, like many in this world our family suffered a mysterious tragedy that stayed till today unsolved, my great grandfather, Ali Hashem, went to the war and never returned https://t.co/SoGfqLVMzk 0 views · 907 likes · 107 reposts · 49 replies 09 Nov 2018